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Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

Informatics Education and Contests in Finland. 7th BEBRAS workshop Druskininkai , Lithuania , May 11th 2011 Juha Vartiainen, Finland. Finnish School System. a ge. optional pre-school compulsory 9 years comprehensive school primary school ( grades 1-6, class teachers )

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Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

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  1. InformaticsEducation and Contests in Finland 7th BEBRAS workshop Druskininkai, Lithuania, May 11th 2011 Juha Vartiainen, Finland

  2. FinnishSchool System age • optionalpre-school • compulsory 9 yearscomprehensiveschool • primaryschool (grades 1-6, classteachers) • secondaryschool (grades 7-9, subjectteachers) • uppersecondaryschool(2-4 years) • concludeswithnationallygradedmatriculationexamination • vocationalstudies Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  3. InformaticsEducation in FinnishSchools – National Curriculum Informatics is not a compulsorysubject in Finnishschools! There is no national levelcurriculum of informatics! Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  4. InformaticsEducation in FinnishSchools – National Curriculum • informatics is mentioned in ”thematicgroupsubject” tehnology • pupilslearn to usedifferenttechnicaldevices and programs • pupilsunderstandethicalquestionsconcerningtechnology • pupilscanvaluetechnicalquestions for the future • … • … onlyprinciples, no precisedefinitions of whatskillspupilsshouldhave Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  5. InformaticsEducation in FinnishSchools • recommendations of a workgroup (2003) • defineswhatpupilsshouldknow of informatics at the end of grades 6 and 9 of comprehensiveschool • ”ICT shouldbeused in differentsubjectssothatpupilscanuseinformationtechnologyversatilely in theirstudies” • National Strategy of Using ICT at Schools (2010) • setsgoals in 8 differentareas of using ICT at schools • recommendations of actionsthatshouldbetakenyears 2011-2015 • estimation of totalcosts 315 millioneuros • no funding is yetguaranteed Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  6. InformaticsEducation in FinnishSchools • new national curriculums of allsubjectsareunderpreparation The firstproposal made lastyeardidn’tincludeinformatics as an individualsubject! Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  7. InformaticsEducation in FinnishSchools – ComprehensiveSchool • in grades 5-9 schoolscanhaveoptionalsubjects • in manyschoolsinformatics is an optionalsubject in grades 8 and 9 • there’s no national levelcurriculum for thesestudies… so in practiseeveryteachercandecidewhat to doduringtheselessons Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  8. InformaticsEducation in Finnish Schools – Comprehensive School • usuallytheseoptionalstudiesinclude • using common officeapplications: presentation, textprocessing and spreadsheets • internet, webpages • securityissues • ... • sometimes • programming • computergraphics • … Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  9. InformaticsEducation in Finnish Schools – Upper Secondary School • manyuppersecondaryschoolshave no courses of informatics • iftherearesuchcourses the topicsaresame as in comprehensiveschool • using ICT varies a lot in uppersecondaryschools • goal: ICT shouldbeused in someway in matriculationexaminationyear 2014 Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  10. InformaticsContests in Finland – Datastar (datatähti) • organisedby science and mathematicsteacher association (MAOL) and Finnishuniversities • firstheld 1991 • originally 2 agegroups • secondaryschoolpupils • uppersecondaryschoolstudents • after 2006 onlyoneagegroup • 10 beststudentsget a studentplace in certainuniversities • beststudentsalsoformFinnishteams in BalticOlympiad in Informatics and Olympiad in Informatics Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  11. InformaticsContests in Finland – Datastar • tasks • essays on informatics (2-4) • programmingtasks (2-4) • participants in lastyears • http://www.maol.fi/kilpailut/neljan-tieteen-kisat/datatahti/ (in Finnish) 2002: 302003: 282004: 262005: 342006: 242007: 272008: 332009: 432010: 15 Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  12. InformaticsContests in Finland – Beaver-contest Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  13. InformaticsContests in Finland – Beaver-contest • www.majava-kilpailu.fi(somepartsalso in English) • organisedfirsttimelastyear • 1472 participantsfrom 42 schools • Benjamin: 481 pupils (215 girls) • Junior: 938 pupils (272 girls) • Senior: 53 students (5 girls) • Best scores • Benjamin: 156/162 • Junior: 163/172 • Senior: 168/168 (6 students) Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  14. InformaticsContests in Finland – Beaver-contest – AgeGroups grades 8-9 grades 4-7 Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  15. InformaticsContests in Finland – Beaver-contest: Benjamin • mostdifficulttask:”Whoate the jam” – 14 % rightanswers • easiesttasks:”Stack of Plates” - 74 % rightanswers”WaterSupply” - 71 % rightanswers • ”Email: Updateyour data” – only 40 % rightanswers Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  16. InformaticsContests in Finland – Beaver-contest: Junior • mostdifficulttask”Whoate the jam?” – 16 % rightanswers • easiesttasks”Error in statistics” – 75 % rightanswers”BeaverBook” – 71 % rightanswers Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  17. InformaticsContests in Finland – Beaver-contest: Senior • mostdifficulttask”Paintingdoors” – 42 % rightanswers”XO” – 53 % • easiesttasks”Beaver in hiscanoe” – 94 % rightanswers”Encodingpictures” – 83 % Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  18. InformaticsContests in Finland – Beaver-contest • choosing the questionswasquitedifficult as informatics is not a subject in Finnishschools • apparentrisk is focusing on general problemsolvingskills • somepupils (Benjamin, Junior) apparently ”guessed” all the answers • most Senior participantswerefromuppersecondaryschoolsspecialised in mathematicalstudies Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

  19. Timo Poranen University of Tampere tp@cs.uta.fi Juha Vartiainen juha.vartiainen@gmail.com Informatics Education and Contests in Finland

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